Show GRAIN CONSUMPTION VARIES DURING YEAR Feeding of Oats Is More Uniform Than That of Corn Barley Wheat and Rye Approach Monthly Uniformity In Degree Less Les THan Oats Silage Oats SHage Reaches High Point In February Prepared by the United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture Whether the supposition is that the consumption of ot corn by live stock on farms In the United States States' varies little from month to month or that the summer consumption is relatively ly small the fact as ascertained by the bureau of crop estimates United States department of agriculture is that during the six months from May Mayto to October nearly three-eighths three of the years year's corn ration is eaten and from November to April five The weather warm-weather fraction will seem largo large or small according t to the size of the guess Oats more than corn Is the feed from April to September and the monthly consumption of oats is uniform throughout the year than that I I of of corn Barley wheat and rye re approach approach approach ap ap- i monthly uniformity in degree less than that of oats throughout the year rear and a concentration of consumption consumption consumption tion In the colder months is found In nay hay silage and mill feed as In the case of corn O Of the years year's entire consumption of corn by live stock on farms the highest high high- highest est consumption In one month Is per cent In December and and the lowest 46 per cent in August For oats the highest est 1 Is s 98 per cent in April an and d the lowest 68 per cent In December barley barle barley bar bar- le ley highest per per cent in November and lowest 6 per cent In June and also In 10 July rye re highest per cent In October October and lowest 71 p per r cent In July wheat highest per cent In November and lowest 58 per cent in Mill 1111 ii ii feed consumption sags to 48 per cent In July and rises to per percent percent percent cent In February and again in March More unequal yet is hay consumption with its range from the highest 14 per cent in February and also in March to 32 per cent in August and another degree is reached by silage the consumption of which rises to per cent of the the- years year's total in February February ary nry and falls to 1 per cent in July and I again In August |